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Leaders' Briefing 2025

18-19 November 2025, London

Our flagship conference, the DPP Leaders’ Briefing, is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for media and technology.

Leaders' Briefing

Public

Media CTO Survey 2025 workshop

25 September 2025

An exclusive session for media, entertainment, news and broadcaster CTOs to discuss themes, trends and findings of the DPP Media CTO Survey 2025 ahead of its publication in November 2025.

Workshop

Selected members

DPP Networking Drinks at IBC 2025

14 September 2025, 4:30pm CEST, Amsterdam

Join the DPP for a drinks reception at IBC 2025, hosted in partnership with Grass Valley.

IBC

Public

Technical Insight

This special series of work explores the reality of media in the cloud today, and sheds light on the challenges that remain.

Cloud Transformation Distribution AI Supply Chain

Marketing and Communications Manager

A description of the DPP's currently open role of Senior Marketing Manager / Head of Marketing

DPP publishes version 2.0 of the AS-11 X6 commercial, sponsorship, and informercial delivery documents

23.06.2025

The DPP is pleased to announce the publication of version 2.0 of the AS-11 X6 commercial, sponsorship, and informercial delivery documents. These documents continue to evolve the DPP’s pioneering work to improve end-to-end digital working for broadcasters.

AS-11 File Delivery

Media Supply Festival 2025

10-11 June 2025, New York

Join the DPP in person in New York for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

Public

The DPP In Conversation: Stockholm

20 May 2025, 5pm CEST

The DPP In Conversation is a new early evening event series that provides high quality networking, together with 1:1 interviews with senior leaders from the media industry.

DPP In Conversation

Public

DPP Networking Drinks at NAB in partnership with Signiant

8 April 2025

Join DPP members and friends for a drink on the Signiant stand at NAB 2025.

NAB

Public

NAB 2025: What buyers want

18 March 2025, 5pm GMT / 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST / 6 PM CET

The DPP will be hosting a webinar in advance of NAB, sharing key insights from our recent CTO Survey and upcoming Demand vs Supply reports, shedding light on what customers are looking for from vendors at this year's show.

NAB

Public

Reducing costs is higher on the agenda of media companies than growing audience or revenue, finds DPP’s new Media CTO Survey report

28.11.2024

The Media CTO Survey report aims to inform the media industry more about the challenges of the CTO role, leadership strategies, approaches to recruitment and procurement, and technology investment priorities.

News

Leaders' Briefing 2024

20-21 November 2024, London

The DPP Leaders’ Briefing is the pre-eminent business intelligence event for the media industry, happening in person only.

Leaders' Briefing

Public

DPP publishes version 7.0 of the AS-11 programme delivery documents

13.11.2024

The DPP has launched today the version 7.0 of the AS-11 programme delivery documents to support broadcasters and content providers delivering HD programmes.

AS-11 File Delivery

Case Study: Limecraft’s Commitment to Sustainability and Industry Impact

25.10.2024

As an active participant in the DPP Committed to Sustainability programme, Limecraft has demonstrated its dedication to making a meaningful environmental impact.

Sustainability

Northern Waves TV Announces 2024 Agenda with DPP

03.10.2024

The DPP, as a media partner, will present a Keynote presentation on ‘The Real Impact of AI in Media Today’ at the Northern Waves TV conference.

Media CTO Survey 2024 workshop

26 September 2024

An exclusive session for media, entertainment, news and broadcaster CTOs to discuss themes, trends and findings of the DPP Media CTO Survey 2024 ahead of its publication in November 2024.

Workshop

Photo highlights from the DPP Espresso Summit 2024

23.09.2024

At this special event, in partnership with Signiant, we hosted a breakfast alongside high quality networking and five short, sharp thought leadership sessions.

Media Supply Festival 2024

30-31 May 2024, New York

Join the DPP in person in New York for the only industry event that brings together customers and suppliers to explore the latest in media supply chain technology and ideas.

Media Supply Festival

Public

The Shifting Landscape of Sustainability in Media Technology

02.05.2024

Kristan Bullett, CEO of Humans Not Robots, on how technology suppliers and buyers can adopt sustainable practices and to contribute to shaping the industry's future

Sustainability

European broadcasters and vendors are evolving closer relationships, finds the DPP

19.04.2023

New for this year, this post event report provides a summary of 18 key design principles that were agreed at the European Broadcaster Summit 2023.

European Broadcaster Summit

Standing on the shoulders of AI giants

07.03.2023

DPP CTO Rowan de Pomerai explains how the world of localisation is benefiting from rapid developments in machine learning.

How To Buy Better

7 December 2022

This must-join webcast will share the key findings from the DPP's exclusive survey of how buyers really buy.

Transformation

Members

DPP Leaders' Briefing 2022 brings together media and technology innovators

17.10.2022

The DPP Leaders' Briefing 2022 is an exclusive conference and networking opportunity bringing together content providers and media suppliers.

Leaders' Briefing

Sustainability seeds sewn into DPP's trends, predictions and leadership work

08.04.2022

Going green has been a central theme from broadcasters and media suppliers in the DPP's latest events and insight reports.

Sustainability

Going green at the DPP Leaders’ Briefing

13.12.2021

An honest overview of our experiences and the challenges we faced when planning an event with sustainability in mind.

Sustainability Leaders' Briefing

DPP and SMPTE publish major updates to IMF documentation

04.08.2021

The DPP has collaborated with SMPTE® on the publication of a new pair of SMPTE Recommended Disclosure Documents resulting in adoption by the BBC this summer.

Scaling in ML/AI media workflows

01.04.2021

Adlede's Johanna Björklund tells us how good training data and access to networks like the DPP helps scale AI solutions

DPP publishes guidance for VOD supplier onboarding

24.03.2021

This new guidance sets out commonly agreed best practices that are simple to implement and can drive significant time and cost savings. It is recommended reading for both senders and receivers of VOD content.

File Delivery

Key Design Principles

27 August 2020

We reveal the common principles that need to inform the design of all media businesses in the wake of the pandemic, in the first of our Design for Tomorrow series.

Transformation Supply Chain

Members

How green is our DPP house?

24.03.2020

A few months ago we revealed the DPP’s Committed to Sustainability score. What does our progress look like and how can our experiences help you?

Sustainability

How is the industry using the Committed to Security Programme?

10.03.2020

So far 42 member companies have completed the checklists for production, broadcast, or both. But how are they putting their results into action?

Security

DPP Unveils Industry Average Sustainability Score

14.02.2020

19 companies have completed the Committed to Sustainability programme.

Sustainability

DPP launches industry-wide sustainability initiative

14.11.2019

The DPP today launched a major new initiative to promote environmentally sustainable practices among suppliers and content providers.

Sustainability

Unlocking new opportunities with IMF for Advertising

22.10.2019

The DPP today announced the development of a proof of concept to demonstrate how component-based workflows using IMF can be applied to advertising use cases.

Transformation

When will tech mean business?

10.10.2019

The industry continues to split discussions about technology and business practice, but this discourse needs to change, says DPP managing director Mark Harrison.

Transformation

How do you like your IMF in the morning?

27.09.2019

A report from the DPP’s IMF Breakfast Briefing at IBC 2019

Sign of the Times: Enhancing IMF with Auxilary Image Tracks

16.09.2019

As a UK Public Service Broadcaster, ITV is regulated by Ofcom, which oversees the provision of accessible content on our broadcast platforms.

DPP and NABA launch IMF Application Constraint DPP (JPEG2000) published by SMPTE

23.08.2019

The DPP in collaboration with NABA has today announced the publication of the second SMPTE Technical Specification (TSP) for the IMF for broadcast and online use cases.

A free, open API to turbo charge IMF: imf-mm-api

21.06.2019

We promise it’s not just alphabet soup.

DPP sees trends that could blindside the industry

27.02.2019

The DPP warns the professional media industry that it’s in danger of missing highly disruptive new global trends.

CES 2019 shows profound trends for media

17.01.2019

Today the DPP published its annual report on the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to its Member companies.

Cloud Transformation AI

CES 2019

17.01.2019

Discover the trends from CES 2019 that will have profound implications for media companies, in the context of a decade’s worth of CES trend data

Trends

MEMBERS

DPP launches AMWA AS-11 X1 UHD specification

23.10.2018

The DPP has today announced the release of a new technical specification to support broadcasters delivering (UHD) programmes

AS-11 File Delivery

DPP and SMPTE launch IMF specification

16.08.2018

The DPP has announced the release of a new technical specification to support the mastering and international exchange of content

DPP launches news metadata guidance

22.05.2018

The DPP has announced the release of a new implementation guide: DPP Metadata Exchange for News.

News Metadata

DPP opens Committed to Security Programme to all

16.10.2017

The DPP has extended its Committed to Security Programme to the whole media industry – including companies which are not Members of the DPP.

Security

DPP helps accelerate industry move to UHD

27.01.2016

The DPP has today announced a technical standard for the delivery of Ultra High Definition (UHD) programmes.

Production

DPP Announces Tech Standards for HD Commercials

13.01.2016

The DPP has today announced Common Technical Delivery Standards for High Definition Commercials/Sponsorship and Promotions/Presentation material.

Major Change for the DPP

26.03.2015

The DPP has today announced it will become a new entity, Digital Production Partnership Ltd (DPP Ltd), from 1 April.

Transformation DPP News

Why 1st October Delivered More Than Just Files

01.10.2014

The DPP was founded on a simple premise: broadcasters are the ones best placed to make digital easier.

AS-11 File Delivery Transformation

DPP Unveils UK File-based Delivery Date

14.09.2013

The DPP has announced today, in a dedicated DPP session at IBC, that UK broadcasters BBC, ITV and Channel 4 will move to file-based programme delivery from 1 October 2014.

AS-11 File Delivery Transformation

UK Broadcasters Announce Partnership

27.01.2011

The UK’s major public service broadcasters have signed up to the Digital Production Partnership (DPP).

Transformation DPP News